tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post5822763493799941619..comments2024-03-20T12:50:48.895+08:00Comments on The Ignatian Perspective: A Humble Attempt At Free VerseAmadeohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-73249930905538723842007-12-25T02:23:00.000+08:002007-12-25T02:23:00.000+08:00bw, I was going to add the idea in your last reply...bw, I was going to add the idea in your last reply to my original answer, but I hesitated.<BR/><BR/>But since you mentioned it, indeed we humans tend to invest our gods with human qualities, like feelings and emotions. That definitely restricts his unquantifiable qualities.<BR/><BR/>Understandably, this helps us humans navigate through our own personal beliefs. <BR/><BR/>Thus, the olden Jews in their writings refused to even give that deity a name, precisely because it was very limiting. So they simply referred to him as one who could not be named.Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-82344733145734934652007-12-24T12:06:00.000+08:002007-12-24T12:06:00.000+08:00Merry Chirstmas to you too Amadeo :)Well there are...Merry Chirstmas to you too Amadeo :)<BR/><BR/>Well there are those whose mission in life is to suffer to please God!<BR/>I guess my point is that if we think God delights in seeing a human being mortifying and punishing himself then we are really humanizing God, giving him attributes akin to the human nature. Perhaps understanding of God is limited, bounded by time and space within the limits of time and space in our domain called earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-29356630617374151912007-12-24T02:30:00.000+08:002007-12-24T02:30:00.000+08:00Hi, BW, Merry Christmas: While in the distant past...Hi, BW, Merry Christmas:<BR/> <BR/>While in the distant past the practice of asceticism may have been pushed to extremes, it essentially should not be viewed as punishment but rather as a way of reining in man’s skewed nature aligning it with his nobler purposes. The Church may at times use strong language emphasizing this eternal conflict, such as doing violence to one’s nature, but in reality it is nothing more than providing moderation, temperance, and direction to a fallen nature that must not be allowed to run awry which is what it is inclined to do unaided and unrestrained..<BR/><BR/>And whether that just God revels at this, I would say no more than that God would revel at all the fortuitous events happening to man in this world, which we say, at the very least, He allows to happen.Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-26314677748466954672007-12-23T22:03:00.000+08:002007-12-23T22:03:00.000+08:00Ascetism - does God revel and delight in seeing a ...Ascetism - does God revel and delight in seeing a human being deliberately punishing himself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-32269214400708903182007-12-02T12:26:00.000+08:002007-12-02T12:26:00.000+08:00What me worry?What me worry?Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-68453137385186192352007-12-01T15:11:00.000+08:002007-12-01T15:11:00.000+08:00It's when you start to write this stuff everyday, ...It's when you start to write this stuff everyday, and can't stop...that's when you worry.,.,.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-4913691684814620362007-11-26T00:36:00.000+08:002007-11-26T00:36:00.000+08:00Okay, go ahead, Phil. And I will counter with the...Okay, go ahead, Phil. And I will counter with the only sappy romantic poem I had the nerve to write, and whose subject will forever remain nameless. Or else, I will be exposed for the loon that I am.Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-1057160821286825492007-11-25T22:10:00.000+08:002007-11-25T22:10:00.000+08:00You know, I wrote a few love sick poems back in an...You know, I wrote a few love sick poems back in an earlier guise. Maybe I'll post 'em and let you make fun of my stuff...!PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-28162840131522935012007-11-21T23:30:00.000+08:002007-11-21T23:30:00.000+08:00I'm the twit who actually wrote this, many years a...I'm the twit who actually wrote this, many years ago while working graveyard to fill my breaks and lulls at work. (HeHeHe)<BR/><BR/>Actually, such show of disdain for life is quite steeped in the old contemplative orders of the Church.<BR/><BR/>But present-day Christian living is geared more toward the "<I>in the world, but not of the world</I>" admonition of Christ.Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-18320057536968644212007-11-21T19:46:00.000+08:002007-11-21T19:46:00.000+08:00Heh heh... Just kidding. I actually kind of like i...Heh heh... Just kidding. I actually kind of like it.PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933501.post-75653025265885028912007-11-21T19:18:00.000+08:002007-11-21T19:18:00.000+08:00Whoever wrote that has WAY too much time on his ha...Whoever wrote that has WAY too much time on his hands and is probably a self-absorbed twit. <BR/><BR/>I prefer this D.H. Lawrence quote: <BR/><BR/>“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”<BR/><BR/>Now THAT is how we should conduct our lives!PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.com